“The live-in girlfriend of a Harpswell man who was charged last week with repeatedly raping a young girl has been charged in connection with the case.

Holly Colfer, 33, was arrested Friday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged abuse occurred over a period of nearly two years.

Amos Johnson, 38, was arrested by Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies on Feb. 26 and charged with 32 counts of gross sexual assault, after an investigation into reports that he abused a girl who is a relative of Colfer’s and is now 13.

Johnson appeared in court the next day. His bail was set at $100,000 property or $50,000 cash. He was still in jail Monday. He faces as much as 25 years in prison on each count.

Colfer was charged not because she participated in the abuse but because she knew about it and failed to report it, said Lt. Donald Foss of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

She was arrested and taken to the Cumberland County Jail on Friday, and posted $1,000 bail shortly thereafter, Foss said. Endangering the welfare of a child is punishable by as much as one year in prison.

The girl is not being identified because of her age and the nature of the alleged crime.

An affidavit by Detective Trevor Cote in support of Johnson’s arrest said the girl reported the abuse to police on Feb. 26. She said Johnson had told her that he wanted to have sex with her and she was worried about what he might do if she said no. The girl said the encounters began when she was 11 and continued past her 13th birthday.

Police interviewed Johnson, who initially denied the allegations but then admitted to the sexual encounters, according to the affidavit.

“The girl also told police that Johnson asked to have sex with both her and Colfer, which never happened. Colfer told police that she knew about some of the abuse and confirmed that Johnson asked about a threesome involving her and the girl, according to the affidavit.

The girl is now in the custody of the state Department of Health and Human Services.”

This woman ought to be charged with child sexual abuse, child endangerment, and reckless abandonment of a child. The victim was only eleven years old when the rapes began, and she was raped at least 32 times by the boyfriend.

Please do with me. I have agreed with most everything on this blog but the idea that sex abusers within the church or cases covered up have “skyrocketed” with vatican 2 is ridiculous. I’m not catholic nor officially religious but I DO take issue with misinformation.

Excellent, Alethea. Thousands of women and men should be named and shamed as accessories and accomplices in child sexual assault because they knew what was going on and in many cases deliberately placed or left the child in harm’s way. The jails aren’t big enough to hold all of them, unfortunately.
I’m thinking in my case of the many so called ‘good’ Catholic priests and nuns who allowed children in their charge (not ‘care’) to be sexually assaulted. They were as evil and deviant in their own way as the ones who carried out the assaults.

Yes, Kevin, and many of them are not true priests and nuns. There was a deliberate infiltration of sexual degenerates who were also homosexuals (some of them pedophiles), communists, and child abusing Satanists who got their tentacles into the Church just prior to Vatican Two, and they sought to destroy the Church. They have now created hatred for Catholicism and a child abuse haven in the church and passed themselves off as The Catholic Church, but are actually a new church that should be called “The Novus Ordo Church of Satan.”

Prior to Vatican Two, the handling of child abusing priests and nuns was vastly different, and there were only a few cases.

Hi Alethea,
This infiltration of the Catholic Church by degenerates is accurate. There is a lot of evidence to substantiate that the destruction of the Church was highly organized and knowledgeable about how to accomplish their plans.

Thanks, Alethea. My sexual assault occurred about 1960, well before Vatican Two. In Ireland at that time the Catholic Church was in total control and were the strict gatekeepers of any kind of salvation. For example, they used Latin to exclude the public from any understanding of Mass and the sacraments, they acted like a secret police and they were above almost every kind of criminal prosecution.
From my experience and that of my age peers, sexual assault was very common at that time and earlier. That was the real Catholic Church as it had existed for decades in Ireland. I have read this theory of ‘infiltration’ of the Church around Vatican Two and I’m sure it’s true. What I can say though from my own experience and that of others, is that priests and other religious had been sexually assaulting children with impunity for decades before Vatican Two. In fact, as a result of Vatican Two people became more informed and actually began to question the rigid authority and privilege of the Church.

The plan for subversion of the Church began as late as the 1930s, and I believe truly began in the 1800’s. In the early 1950s, Mrs. Bella Dodd, (who confessed to all of this after her conversion) provided detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church:

Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. Dodd said in 2000: “In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within.” The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: “Right now they are in the highest places in the Church” — where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church’s effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not recognize the Catholic Church.”

Just before Vatican Two, things were ripe and ready, so whomever abused you (a priest?) was already in place as a result of the infiltration.

Latin has never been used to exclude the public from any understanding of the Mass and the Sacraments. That is a fallacy –one made up by Vatican Two. The Tridentine Mass is the True Mass, and said to be “The most beautiful thing this side of Heaven.” –which I believe it is. It inspires, and uplifts the soul. It inspired and uplifted the soul for centuries until Vatican Two decided that souls needed to be appeased to, and not led to God.

Every person who attends the Tridentine Mass has always had the ability to follow the Mass in English in their Missal. Vatican Two made up the story you speak of in order to cover the fact that when they changed The Tridentine Mass to the Novus Ordo mass, they changed the Sacrament –thus, they changed the faith, and created their own church.

Yes, some priests have gotten away with child sexual abuse before Vatican Two, but the numbers of priests who abuse, and the amount of cases covered up, skyrocketed with Vatican Two.

“… as a result of Vatican Two people became more informed and actually began to question the rigid authority and privilege of the Church.”

That’s like saying that, as a result of someone in a day care facility having the nerve to question the day care facility’s involvement in a massive child abuse ring, this brought the child abuse to light.

This Blog is not for debating religious history though, so if you want to continue this discussion, you can email me. sanjuanangel7@yahoo.com